In this issue: testing characteristics of patient-centered medical homes, patient self-care, predicting outcomes, and practical clinical information.

摘要

Testing Specific Characteristics of Patient-Centered Medical Homes Use of electronic health records (EHRs) is taking off. They are intuitively appealing, but they are not always better than the paper version. One aspect that electronic records should help with is the availability of test results; another possibility is more appropriate and timely orders with the use of prompting. After implementing an EHR, Metz et al identified improvements in both of these areas for routine prenatal studies in a family medicine residency, and very good rates for both ordering and charting were improved to near perfect.